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[RiffRaff]

the joys of no manual to look at
anybody give me a clue as to where the crank sensor is on my 97 2.0l miggy

[magnul]

Crank sensor on X20XEV is at the underside of the engine, in the oil dipstick tube area. Only seen from below. If you have AC it is hidden behind the pump afaik, but is easily spotted from under the car if you don't have AC. The wireing goes along the cambelt cover.

-Magnus-

[Grumpy]

Just changed mine last week.

As Magnul said, if you don't have Air Con fitted you'll be able to access
from underneath.

If you do have Air Con fitted, as I did, forget about access from underneath.
Way to do it in this case, in my opinion and experience, is from the top.

Remove the heatshield from over the exhaust, 5 minute job, for easier
access. Run your hand down the oil dipstick tube until you meet it's
entry point into the crankcase. Feel forward about 2" in front of the dipstick tube,
towards the front of the engine, and you will be able to feel the crank sensor.

No idea of your manual dexterity, but if you have a universal joint to fit onto
your socket, and are happy working blind, by touch and feel, you can remove
and refit the crank sensor from this position as long as you don't have 'dinner
plate' hands.

If the dipstick tube was removed, access would be easy. But I've no idea how
it's fixed into the crankcase.

If you don't have the correct tools or the manual dexterity, I would suggest
slipping off your Aux Belt, unbolting the Power Steering Pump, and move it out of the way
on it's flexible pipes.

The socket that fits your Heatshield mounting bolts is the same size as the Crank Sensor
mounting bolt. This will save you fiddling around blind on the Crank Sensor
'Guesstimating' the socket size  you require.  

Up to you how you attack it. But if you don't have Air Con, it should be fairly
straight forward from underneath.

[tompoes1]

sorry to but in but is the crank sensor in the same place on a 2.5 auto.
  thanks

[magnul]

V6 is explained here:
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1174321688

-Magnus-

[dippydave]

Just changed mine last week.

As Magnul said, if you don't have Air Con fitted you'll be able to access
from underneath.

If you do have Air Con fitted, as I did, forget about access from underneath.
Way to do it in this case, in my opinion and experience, is from the top.

Remove the heatshield from over the exhaust, 5 minute job, for easier
access. Run your hand down the oil dipstick tube until you meet it's
entry point into the crankcase. Feel forward about 2" in front of the dipstick tube,
towards the front of the engine, and you will be able to feel the crank sensor.

No idea of your manual dexterity, but if you have a universal joint to fit onto
your socket, and are happy working blind, by touch and feel, you can remove
and refit the crank sensor from this position as long as you don't have 'dinner
plate' hands.

If the dipstick tube was removed, access would be easy. But I've no idea how
it's fixed into the crankcase.

If you don't have the correct tools or the manual dexterity, I would suggest
slipping off your Aux Belt, unbolting the Power Steering Pump, and move it out of the way
on it's flexible pipes.

The socket that fits your Heatshield mounting bolts is the same size as the Crank Sensor
mounting bolt. This will save you fiddling around blind on the Crank Sensor
'Guesstimating' the socket size  you require.  

Up to you how you attack it. But if you don't have Air Con, it should be fairly
straight forward from underneath.

I found this topic when searching for a 'how to' and thought i'd post an update. After half an hour scraping my hands and arms by the dipstick tube (which won't come off btw), I gave the car to a professional.

Simply put, as I have aircon, the fan (aux) belt had to come  off, the aircon compressor and power steering pump had to be unbolted and then the right part has to be fitted! If it's your only problem then jobs a goodun

Found out the hard way that the part originally bought was wrong, so it all came off and went back on with the right one! and the saga continued.... but that's not for this topic

[Vitaliy]

Regarding oil dipstick - its removable by:

Removing one of the nuts of the PAS pump at the back to free its mount and than gently twisting it not more than 1/4 of a turn and pulling at the same time. Its being held by 2  rubber o-rings that stop oil spilling out from there. The whole problem there is due to place being rusty. I have changed an engine on mine recently and my old one had oil spilled all over it - no rust and I could pull the dipstick out very easily. On my new one it was more challenging as engine was very clean and that spot rusty.